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Yasmina Tawil
@yasminat.bsky.social
Director of Film Programming at the Arab Film and Media Institute. Find me at a dark bar, weird movie or loud gig. She/Her 🇱🇧🇸🇾🇨🇭
I hope you will join me next Wednesday 11/19 for a screening of WAJIB (2017) by Annemarie Jacir as part of the Cinema Arabiyya series at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social! Select the "donation+ ticket" option to help us raise money for The Sameer Project. nitehawkcinema.com/williamsburg...
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My next @bambrooklyn.bsky.social program, FOLKLORE & FAIRYTALES, starts on Halloween! A selection of unusual, beautiful, and often haunting tales from across the globe features stories that have been passed down through generations—or at least feel as though they have. www.bam.org/film/2025/fo...
October 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Also very excited to finally meet Kelly Reichardt after all of these years of working with her early films in the O-Scope catalogue. I love THE MASTERMIND and highly recommend you come see it!
Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind (fresh from Cannes) lands with a sly, stunning take on 1970s suburbia, when an unemployed family man and amateur art thief sets out on his first heist. 🎞️

🎥 Q&A with Reichardt follows the 4PM screening Sun, Oct 19.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/476Tpvg
October 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Looking forward to welcoming back the incredible Heiny Srour to BAM tomorrow 10/17 as part of my program, "Where Do We Go Now?: Lebanese Women in Film".

Heiny will be doing a Q&A and presenting some new or rarely seen work with her masterful documentary THE HOUR OF LIBERATION HAS ARRIVED.
One night only: 3 films by pioneering Lebanese auteur Heiny Srour, incl. a sneak peek of her new epilogue to The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived. 🎬
Join us Fri, Oct 17 at 7PM for the screening + Q&A with Srour, moderated by Ginou Choueiri (ArteEast).
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October 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In honor of the recently restored works by groundbreaking filmmakers Heiny Srour and Jocelyne Saab, I've put together a selection of films directed by Lebanese women during and after the Civil War. Screening Oct 17-23 at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social! Tix: www.bam.org/film/2025/le...
October 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
My next @bambrooklyn.bsky.social program CLASSROOM REBELS runs from 9/26-10/2! As the first month back to school comes to a close, we explore stories of teenage students who push back against the status quo.

Info & tix available at www.bam.org/film/2025/cl...
September 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Tomorrow! Cinema Arabiyya's first screening at Nitehawk Prospect Park!
An authoritarian patriarch is accidentally turned into a chicken by a magician during a children's birthday party in FEATHERS, screening Tuesday at Nitehawk Prospect Park in our next CINEMA ARABIYYA
September 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Join me on 9/9 at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social Prospect for FEATHERS by Omar El Zohairy, an Egyptian dark social satire where an authoritarian patriarch is accidentally turned into a chicken during a child's birthday party. This event benefits Asiyah Women's Center. nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark...
August 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
My next @bambrooklyn.bsky.social program is live and entitled SUMMERS OF CHANGE. This sun-drenched series finds characters trying their best to surf massive waves of summertime change. Escape the oppressive heat in Brooklyn’s coolest cinemas Aug 22-28 😎 www.bam.org/film/2025/su...
August 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reposted by Yasmina Tawil
Restored & Renewed kicks off Friday at BAM 🎬

11 film gems. 5 decades. All stunningly restored.

From Killer of Sheep to Picnic at Hanging Rock to Batang West Side—see these cinematic milestones the way they were meant to be seen: on the big screen.
August 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Reposted by Yasmina Tawil
"NYC 2000s is a 2-week journey through some of the biggest & smallest films that were set in, filmed in & about the city...when the city was dealing with the aftershocks of 9/11 & the recession, while it began solidifying the Bloomberg vision of itself.”

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Relive the aughts on the silver screen at BAM this month
'It's a very simple thing, I just wanted to explore this city in that era of nostalgia.'
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July 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I'd also love to encourage you to come out to the next screening in my Cinema Arabiyya series at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social. July 24th, we will be screening another 00's nostalgia film, this time from Lebanon called BOSTA! nitehawkcinema.com/williamsburg...
July 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NYC 2000's also made it to the @nytimes.com as part of their list of Fun Things to Do in NYC in July! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/a...
What to Do in New York City in July
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July 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Very honored to chat with Dave Colon about my next program at BAM - NYC 2000s! We chatted about early aughts nostalgia, smaller cinematic gems in the program (including the Arab-American THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE) and one that got away...it starts tomorrow 7/18! www.bam.org/film/2025/ny...
July 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Excited to announce that the opening night film of the 27th Arab Film Festival will be the U.S. Premiere of HAJJAN! The newest film from Abu Bakr Shawky! It's a beautiful & exciting adventure film that you won't want to miss. Nov 10 at the Castro. Get your tix now! arabfilmfestival.org
27th Arab Film Festival
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October 2, 2023 at 9:07 PM